that Jack thinks, Thursday, March 12, 1981', page 10 7‘

Women Faculty: Few and Far'

points to the small nunber of wanen who enter grad- ‘ uate school. Asked why the nmrbers of graduate students are so small, Shaw shrugs.

" I don't really know why it exists, it's the way of the world,it's the way these female students think."

Shaw may truly believe men and wanen find equal opp- ortunities at university, but his reluctance to inves— tigate the ststistics has

I prevented him fran making. . educated statements about the situation.

'Ihose statistics-- cold, stark, lifeless-- tell a startling tale. UBC has more than 2,000 faculty nembers. Only 12 per cent are wanen. Wcmen make up 13 per cent of the faculty at Simon Fraser University.

Only 6.7 per cent .of women are faculty at the University of Victoria.

Yet women make up a full third of more transient ' positions like lecturers.

. A 1980 statistics Canada surmer employment survey of returning students found that fewer than their male counterparts fomd jobs. ‘ It should also cane as -no surprise thatzsome students' surmer earnings are, on the average, lower than men's.

So in economic terms it is difficult for women to remain simply as under—

graduate students. When they

do reach the graduate level, they are a minority in the Canadian university system. In 1978-79, according to Statistics Canada, wan-2n in graduate school made up only 34.5 per cent of the nation's total enrollment;

In Saskatchewan, with the smallest number of women

in the masters and doct- orate program in the coun-.

By Julie Wheelwright

idable Old Boys network, For Canadian University Press '

oarplete with all the attitudes that membership implies. So perhaps it ,- is only too typical of university administrators

"If you take two people!" says Michael Shaw, "one man and one woman at a univer— , _ sity, they're going to do that Shaw f ls "there are

equally well." more inpo t things" than Shaw is an administration looking the nunbers of

vice—president at the wafer! teaching.

University of B.C. He's Asked about the small

also happily ensconged in percentage of_wcmen in

that university's form- faculty positions, Shaw

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I 'Ihe trend is clear. 'Ihe higher up the educational ladder one climbs, the fewer women one encounters. 'Ihe wanen who do make it and receive a university posi-- tion, suffer a myriad of problene. ‘

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